Jamie Foxx health update: Actor shares details of near-death experience and coma in Netflix special

Jamie Foxx instructed a packed viewers at a taping for his Netflix particular that he had a “near-death expertise” and was in a weeks-long coma throughout his thriller well being disaster that had him hospitalised in 2023.

Foxx’s Netflix standup particular – Jamie Foxx: What Had Occurred Was, which premieres subsequent Tuesday – is billed as a “heartfelt return” through which the star “units the report straight” and “expresses deep gratitude to those that prayed and supported his restoration, turning his present right into a thanks to his followers,” based on Netflix’s description.

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Two of Foxx’s followers who attended a taping of the particular, which filmed in early October in Atlanta, instructed CNN that Foxx carried out a one-man-show through which he revealed his prognosis and mentioned his restoration.

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Jamie Foxx has shared new particulars of his thriller well being ordeal, saying he nearly died. (Getty)

Netflix declined to touch upon what would make the ultimate lower. CNN reached out to representatives for Foxx.

Foxx stated “he handed out and remembered waking up. He stated it was a near-death expertise,” Demecos Chambers, a longtime fan of Foxx who attended the standup taping in October, instructed CNN, sharing what the Oscar and Grammy winner stated onstage.

“He spoke about waking up within the hospital. He thought he simply handed out for a second, however it was two or three weeks. He was in a stone-cold coma.”

Chambers stated Foxx instructed the viewers that he was unconscious for therefore lengthy that when he awoke within the hospital, he had grown a beard.

Chambers and his pal with whom he attended the present each spoke to CNN. They stated viewers members have been required to seal their telephones in pouches through the efficiency however weren’t requested to signal any releases, so they might communicate freely concerning the present.

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Foxx pictured through the filming of his upcoming Netflix particular. (Parrish Lewis/Netflix through CNN Newsource)

Including to the secretive nature of the standup particular, Netflix just isn’t sending members of the press advance screeners. Foxx can also be not doing any interviews earlier than the particular premieres, based on the streamer.

Chambers stated that Foxx doesn’t maintain again when revealing the chilling chronology of being hospitalized after passing out on-set in Atlanta, the place he was in manufacturing on his upcoming Netflix movie Again in Motion with Cameron Diaz.

Foxx stated onstage that “if he did not get to the hospital in that second and the nurse did not deal with him in a sure timeframe, he stated he would have died,” based on Chambers, who added that the star expressed that he was “actually inside an inch of his life. He was gone. It was lights out.”

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Foxx has not publicly disclosed the particular prognosis that led to his hospitalisation.

This previous summer time, in a video shared to TikTok, the “Ray” actor stated he had a “unhealthy headache” and was then “gone for 20 days.” In that video, he was seen sharing that he didn’t “bear in mind something.” On the time of his hospitalisation, his daughter Corinne Foxx stated on social media that her well-known father had suffered a “medical complication.”

Foxx instructed the viewers on the taping for his particular that his household stored him alive, sharing that one in every of his daughters was taking part in guitar subsequent to his hospital mattress when he lastly awoke from his unconscious state, based on Chambers.

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On the time of the well being disaster, Corinne Foxx described her father’s situation as a “medical complication.” (Getty)

“His daughter was taking part in a household guitar and that’s what woke him up and stored him alive throughout his coma,” Chambers recalled from Foxx’s standup. “He actually worships his daughters. They play a major a part of the present. He says this example gave him a grander perspective on life and the individuals round him.”

A part of the present, based on Chambers, is Foxx telling his personal story – however he additionally tells the story of his medical thriller from the angle of the media and hypothesis on social media, together with false options of Foxx being cloned, overdosing on medicine or being poisoned.

Chambers stated that Foxx places on a formidable present, throughout which he performs standup, dances, sings and performs the piano. Regardless of his well being scare, Chambers stated that he appeared to be in good well being.

“He was capable of operate on his personal and did not want any help on stage. He is very a lot energetic and strong, however you may inform that he is recovering from a severe well being concern – he is extra acutely aware of how he strikes,” Chambers stated. “However he talks about how nice he feels and does some leaping up and down.”

He added, “Jamie is an incredible storyteller. He can inform a narrative the place you’re feeling such as you’re sitting along with your uncles. It was hilarious.”

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